Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, 1835

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For Juliette Kinze the Wisconsin frontier of the early nineteenth century was foreign and intimidating. This database is a reprint of her account living at Fort Winnebago in the early 1830s. It provides descriptions of local customs, folklore, economic practices, medical treatments, and social hierarchies. These descriptions include white settlers, Native Americans, fur traders, missionaries, soldiers, and African-Americans. Additionally, it contains stories of settlers captured by Indians. For researchers wishing to better understand the frontier life of early Midwest settlers, this database can be an entertaining and informative narrative.

Sources Library of Congress. Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Kinzie, Juliette Augusta Magill. Wau-bun, The Early Days in the Northwest. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Company, 1873.

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